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In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.
Jan 10, 2022 · Animal groups are often organized hierarchically, with dominant individuals gaining priority access to resources and reproduction over subordinate individuals. Initial dominance hierarchy formation may be influenced by multiple interacting factors, including an animal's individual attributes, conventions and self-organizing social dynamics.
Dominance hierarchies are best known in social mammals, such as baboons and wolves, and in birds, notably chickens (in which the term peck order or peck right is often applied). In most cases the dominance hierarchy is relatively stable from day to day.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 12, 2022 · A key to understanding how these different species manage dominance is comparative analysis. Strauss and his colleagues created a new database on 135 different species in which dominance data have been published.
Jan 10, 2022 · In nearly 100 years of research on dominance, scientists have documented the presence of hierarchies that structure social conflict in a wide range of species [ 1, 2 ]: groups of ants, fish, lizards, geese, parrots, elephants, hyenas, primates and many species in between form groups with detectable hierarchies, where individuals within the group...
- Elizabeth A. Hobson
- February 28, 2022
- 10.1098/rstb.2020.0433
Jan 1, 2021 · A small number of species are characterized by the much rarer strict male philopatry, including chimpanzees, bonobos, spider monkeys, and muriquis (Silk 2009). Dispersal patterns shape the type and longevity of relationships within the group, including dominance relationships.
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Empirically, pairwise dominance relations often form a linear order or dominance hierarchy in an enormous range of species, including chimpanzees and bonobos (Wittig & Boesch, 2009; Murray et. al. 2006, 2007; Thompson et. al. 2007; Noe et. al. 1980; Vervaecke et. al. 2000;
